Tim McGraw is showing off his tender side with a new track, “Hallelujahville.” The song is from his upcoming new album, Here on Earth, scheduled for an August 21 release. According to a Facebook post announcing the song, “Hallelujahville,” written by Tom Douglas, Blake Griffith and Brett Taylor, has some of the favorite lyrics Tim has ever recorded.
Saying in part, “Sunday supper we pass the biscuits / Save the grease from cast-iron skillets / AC’s broke and we can’t fix it / And we’re okay with that / We quote King James like a Waylon song / Pray at night, make love till dawn / Love us or leave us the hell alone / Hope you’re okay with that,” the song is part of an 18-track project that Tim intended to be thought-provoking.
“I want people to have an emotional connection, with characters, throughout the album,” Tim CMT. “I didn’t really set out to make a concept album, but I did want to make an album that was sort of a tapestry of life in a lot of ways. Every song is sort of a vignette of parts of life that you go through as part of this path that we walk down.
“They’re not necessarily congruent, but they are really stuff that connects you to who you are and where you’re at and where you’ve been in life,” he continued. “I think that even if you can’t relate to what the song’s talking about specifically or the subject matter, I think you can find a way to make it relate to something in your life or some path that you’ve walked.”
The father of three thought he might make Here on Earth a double-album, but was afraid people would lose interest.
“I wanted to do even more,” Tim conceded. “We recorded over 25, but we mixed out 25 songs. I loved every one of them. The hardest part — at first I wanted to narrow the album down to 12. And then as I went through the process, I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t get it narrowed down. There were so many songs.
“The songs that didn’t get on the album are still songs that I hope will show up some other time,” he added. “I wanted to do a big double album with 20, 25 sides. It’s just tough to hold people’s attention that long. I hope I can hold them long enough to listen to the 18 that we do have.”
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